Saeed Hamed al-Yasiri

Saeed Hamed al-Yasiri was the leader of the Ansar al-Maja'iah Shi'ite paramilitary group.

Biography
Saeed Hamed al-Yasiri was from a family of Shia Muslim Arabs in Iraq, and he formed the Ansar al-Maja'iah paramilitary group in southern Iraq. In 2014, he took VICE News on a tour of the front lines of the Iraqi Civil War in the Islamic State stronghold of Anbar Province, and he showed them the liberated town of Amiriyat al-Fallujah (which had been besieged for nine months, where 200 ISIS soldiers - mostly foreign fighters - were killed) while driving in a truck, and he took VICE News to the militia's position, where Sunni and Shia fighters united as one to fight IS.